A biography for John Fettermanhasn’t been written yet.
“My life has been, you know, immeasurably enriched by my wife and her family and her immigration story.”
“The truth doesn't need a label. It's the truth.”
“When you have the president arguing that there was mass voter fraud in the absence of any evidence whatsoever - I mean, literally zero - what's to stop anyone from saying so-and-so's a so-and-so?”
“For Americans living in places like Braddock, I believe the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is perhaps the last, best chance to help overcome the injustice and harm that the decades steeped in a laissez-faire orthodoxy have wrought.”
“We must never stop pushing for equal protection under the law in Pennsylvania and across the country.”
“To pretend that former President Donald Trump's Republican Party will act in good faith to preserve democracy is naive.”
“You can't litigate math.”
“Universal background checks and closing existing loopholes can prevent prohibited purchasers, such as convicted felons, the dangerously mentally ill and domestic abusers from accessing guns.”
“Unions sustained and fed the middle class. It's no coincidence that as union membership has continued to dwindle, so have the fortunes of the middle class.”
“In fact, I've been around guns for most of my life.”
“I'm a GQ fashionista, imagine that? I don't take it seriously.”
“Yeah, I'm quiet and introspective.”
“There isn't a more strident supporter of Bernie than I am.”
“I moved to Braddock in 2001 and started a program to help local youth earn their GED and find jobs.”
“If you think that people can change... and, if they've grown and they've expressed contrition or regret, that they should be given a chance, then you should vote for me.”
“From my perspective, we must create an equitable path forward to energy independence, not only from foreign countries, but also independence from fossil fuels.”
“I know I am not Braddock's savior, never felt that way, and never will. There's no 'Rudy' style ending waiting for me where I get carried off the field and everything turns out O.K. for me or for Braddock.”
“I really don't care what Patrick J. Toomey says or does because Patrick J. Toomey couldn't get reelected in Pennsylvania, and that's why he's out.”
“You can't live in a town like Braddock and not know exactly what gunfire sounds like.”
“You're to the right of Hobby Lobby if you don't support $15. Hobby Lobby recognized that you got to pay people $15 an hour. So if Hobby Lobby gets it, and you don't as a Democrat, what's your problem, you know?”